ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,537, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Boost converter" was invented by Jing-Yuan Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Feng Lin (Yilan County, Taiwan) and Chuan-Ting Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boost converter is provided. A first terminal of a first inductor of the boost converter is connected to a positive terminal of an input power source. In the of the boost converter, a second terminal of the first inductor is connected to a first terminal of a resonant inductor, and a second terminal of the resonant inductor is connected to a first te...